October/November 2005 |
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Silent No More
A distinguished band of Knight Ridder alumni takes a stand.
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By
Rem Rieder
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Taking Their Questions
The Post’s executive editor goes online to discuss the Bob Woodward uproar.
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By
Rem Rieder
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Say It Isn’t So, Bob
Woodward keeps a secret—from his bosses
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By
Rem Rieder
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Changing of the Guard
AJR welcomes a new managing editor and bids a fond hasta luego to an all-time favorite.
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By
Rem Rieder
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Press Release: Smolkin Succeeds Robertson as AJR Managing Editor
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Life After Judy
The New York Times needs to confront tough questions about itself.
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Rem Rieder
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Don’t Blame Me
Ousted CBS producer Mary Mapes, who gave the world the ill-fated report on President Bush’s National Guard service, goes on the attack.
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Rem Rieder
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Sell or Else!
A big investor’s threat to Knight Ridder is bad news for the newspaper industry.
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By
Rem Rieder
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Doing the Right Thing
Keller’s mea culpa in the Judith Miller saga was admirable—and smart.
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By
Rem Rieder
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Who’s in Charge?
The Miller affair, like previous Times fiascoes, raises questions about the paper's editing and decision-making.
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Rem Rieder
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Candor Time
The New York Times must tell us the inside story of the Judith Miller case.
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Rem Rieder
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Essential Again
As the tragedy of Katrina unfolded, the battered mainstream media elevated their games, challenging inaccurate statements by public officials and providing crucial information to an audience that needed it desperately.
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By
Marc Fisher
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Apocalypse in New Orleans
A firsthand account of how a small band of Times-Picayune journalists covered devastation and misery in their shattered home
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By
Brian Thevenot
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Uncharted Terrain
While it’s too soon to gauge the extent of the damage, the Judith Miller/Matthew Cooper case already has clouded source-reporter relationships and impelled news organizations and journalists to reexamine practices ranging from negotiating with sources to taking and storing notes.
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By
Rachel Smolkin
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Gun-Toting Journalists
It’s long been taboo for reporters to carry weapons. But what do you do when you’re in constant danger, your colleagues are being gunned down and the authorities can’t protect you?
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By
Sherry Ricchiardi
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The Chronicle Chronicles
Hearst had dreams of creating a world-class newspaper when it bought the San Francisco Chronicle nearly five years ago. Since then the paper has recruited big-time editing firepower, set the pace on coverage of the baseball steroid scandal and snared a Pulitzer. Now it faces serious financial problems as it struggles to forge a consistent identity.
What lies ahead?
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By
Lori Robertson
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A Fond Farewell
How Peter Jennings’ Middle East Expertise Helped a Newspaper Reporter
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By
Patrick J. Sloyan
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Correction
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AJR Staff
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The Curse of Prescience
Covering a disaster in a city that belongs to all of us
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By
Thomas Kunkel
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Playing Big
The media's impressive coverage of hurricane Katrina
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By
Rem Rieder
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Web Special:
Black Tuesday
The axman cometh to Philadelphia’s newspapers.
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By
Rem Rieder
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Online Search and Rescue
Efforts to reunite Katrina’s victims were well-intentioned but chaotic.
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By
Barb Palser
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Bearing Witness
TV journalists delivered hard-hitting, heartrending accounts of Hurricane Katrina’s devastation.
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By
Deborah Potter
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A Magazine Is Not a Newspaper
An Alabama case shows why crafting a shield law isn’t easy.
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By
Jane Kirtley
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Dizzy in Detroit
The three-way deal shows how much the industry has changed.
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By
John Morton
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Eye on CBS
The network launches a blog to scrutinize its news operation.
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By
Jennifer Dorroh
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Everyone’s a Grammarian
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By
Robin T. Reid
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Leaving Iraq Behind
Knight Ridder’s Hannah Allam swaps Baghdad for Cairo.
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By
Sarah Clark
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An Inspirational and Instructive Memoir
Andrea Mitchell, a real-life Brenda Starr, looks back at an action-packed career in broadcast journalism.
Talking Back…to Presidents, Dictators, and Assorted Scoundrels
By Andrea Mitchell
Viking
432 pages; $25.95
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Book review by
Carl Sessions Stepp
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Too Harsh Indeed
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A Tepid Response
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Unmasking the Source
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Back-Page Jumps
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Costas Says No, Media Say Yes
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Webb Reaction
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What’s in a Name?
Does “refugee” depict the desperate plight of Katrina’s victims, or does it insult U.S. citizens?
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By
Dana Hull
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No Longer a Beacon of Hope
An African journalist laments the message Judith Miller’s jailing sends to the rest of the world.
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By
Alagi Yorro Jallow
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